If you don't know what is Bob, skip.... It is 90s weirdo stuff.

I had a very interesting interaction with Bob. Just before the meeting, I decided to print 50 copies of the notes using command line for Word. Apparently, thanks to Bob, the Word opened but the print will not continue until you click on Bob. Since I gave 50 commands in a loop, it opened 50 copies. After some 30-40 windows, the system crashed (It was a large server machine with 128 MB RAM, quite a big machine for 1998).

Current share of renewables is only 1.2% of total energy (not just electricity). So a 25% growth means only 0.25% of total energy shift from fossil fuel (and also from nuclear which fell by 4.4%) to renewable and hence the 82% share of fossil fuel is constant. Renewables (excluding hydro) is growing at a double digit growth rate. It is still years away before a visible shift but once that happens, the fossil fuel percentage will start falling drastically.

IANAL, but this is a clear violation of GPL. From the Registrar link in the story, "The key point being is that to obtain those binaries, customers – as well as developers on free accounts – must agree to a license agreement and are under the terms of a contract, which overrides the GPL license of the code itself."

If I am a customer of RHEL and I get the binary, then I have full rights to distribute the binaries. RHEL cannot prevent me from doing so. But if I distribute the binaries, then I have to provide source, which means I must distribute the source too. So RHEL cannot force me not to distribute the source without violating the GPL. Theoretically, RHEL could lose privilege to use the GPL code in the RHEL and that could very well end the company itself. It is huge gamble for them and given that bigwigs like Oracle are affected, it is really not worth taking this risk.

In India, many businesses used to close for 3 hours in the afternoon (12-3 or 1-4). Even today, many retail places are closed in the mid-day. Even doctors are off in the afternoon. Many Indian restaurants in US are closed from 2-5 pm. Even many housewives take nap after service lunch to family.

Primary reason was that people go home for lunch, and then they take nap and reopen the business. This worked in traditional businesses close to your home. With increasingly modern economy, the number of people taking break is reducing.

The article says India as the third largest CO2 emitter as if to imply that it is bad. Same thing your statement "at least they can refrain from making things worse" implies.

But the next country which emits less CO2 that India has less than a quarter of the population of India. Also the 1st and 2nd are emitting at least 4x per capita CO2. India is still one of the lowest CO2 emitters. No other country has put halt on coal power plants when its per capita coal consumption is as low as India. So India should be lauded for its effort.

Great job India. No other country is doing as much as India is doing towards lowering CO2 in the env.

"4. Same goes for periodic table"

Should read "Same goes for evolution".

I can't believe the level of response this article is generating disregarding all the facts. I joined slashdot almost 2 decades ago expecting little better standards but it seems to have deteriorated.

I can't even imagine a reputed journal like this prints politically motivated article. There is absolutely zero evidence of RSS involvement and it puts 100% blame on them. Seriously, is their editorial board is so dumb not to ask to produce a single evidence in regard to this?

1. Affects 134 million students: Wrong. NCERT only makes syllabus for central schools which are not even 10%. Most schools are state schools and they are free to make their own syllabus.
2. There were 5 chapters in 10th grade chemistry book and they removed the 5th chapter which was on periodic table. This was to reduce burdens on 10th grade students. FYI, California high school students are not required to take any chemistry at all. Not sure about other states in US. I studied in India during the time, when the current ruling party had less than 1% of representations and we didn't have periodic table in 10th grade.
3. The chapter is already there in 11th grade (mandatory for science majors. yes, in India, you have to select major in 11th grade).
4. Same goes for periodic table. California students are not required to take biology in high school at all. India moved the evolution from 10th grade to 11th grade.
5. RSS/hindutva.....? Where the hell did the author get? No evidence at all. Moving from end of 10th grade (they were last chapters in 10th grade) to 11th grade will save hindutva? Are they thinking readers are stupid? Well, reading the responses makes me feel they thought that way and were even right.

"They are not as bad as China".... You sound like either an ignorant or some kind of supremacist. India emits less than 1/7 of CO2 on per capita basis than US and its lifetime CO2 (since CO2 was internationally recognized as global warming agent and needs to be reduced) is 1/10. Even if we go according to the pledge by US to be carbon neutral by 2060 and India carbon neutral by 2070, it will still be 1/6 per capita basis.

India just moved from teaching periodic table from end of 10th grade to 11th grade. Not a big deal. OTOH, Chemistry is not even a mandatory subject in many US states (e.g. California). Same is true for biology. Not mandatory in CA high school and India just moved from 10th to 11th grade.

Nature article is plain stupid and political and I was expecting must better editorial control than this.

I can't even imagine a reputed journal like this prints politically motivated article. There is absolutely zero evidence of RSS involvement and it puts 100% blame on them. Seriously, is their editorial board is so dumb not to ask to produce a single evidence in regard to this?

Here are few other glaring errors:
1. Affects 134 million students: Wrong. NCERT only makes syllabus for central schools which are not even 10%. Most schools are state schools and they are free to make their own syllabus.
2. There were 5 chapters in 10th grade chemistry book and they removed the 5th chapter which was on periodic table. This was to reduce burdens on 10th grade students. FYI, California high school students are not required to take any chemistry at all. Not sure about other states in US. I studied in India during the time, when the current ruling party had less than 1% of representations and we didn't have periodic table in 10th grade.
3. The chapter is already there in 11th grade (mandatory for science majors. yes, in India, you have to select major in 11th grade).

Agree for laser printers. I bought a Dell color laser printer 5 years ago. I have replaced cartridges only once with third party cartridges. Total cost for printer and replacement cartridges so far including all taxes is USD 110 (printed over 1000 pages).

HP wasn't always this way. I had owned HP printers from 2012 to 2018 and I used third party ink cartridges after the originals were over and they all worked well. Eventually, my printer wasn't printing well with third party cartridges and so bought original HP. That didn't print well either indicating some other printer issue. I returned the opened cartridge (and HP took back and issued full refund). The next printer I bought was non-HP only because I got a better deal on it.

Recently, I bought an HP PC. Its build quality was horrible. Among other things, there was so much light leaking from backlight keyboard, that it made it hard to read the key letters even in reasonably lighted room (I don't know if it had an option to turn off backlight). The casing plastics felt cheaper than a plastic glass from a dollar store. I returned that and bought a non-HP one. The new laptop has adapter efficiency (powerOutput / powerInput) almost twice the adapter that came with the HP laptop.

Seriously? How? The usability of foldable is very poor. It can't work as tablet or a phone. Imagine alarm rings in the morning. I just reach out and click stop/snooze. Now, I will have to pull out from the charging cord and get the phone, open the phone and click on stop/snooze. I am wondering how will I attach in my car phone holder. I get dozens of notifications a day when my phone is lying on my side and I am working on my computer. It is much easier to glance at my phone and determine whether it is an important or not. With folding phone, I have to keep it open or keep opening it.

I see very little usage of phone in folded mode except when it is in my pocket. So far, I have seen foldable phone with only two people and neither of them recommend anyone to buy. I am almost sure that you don't have it and mostly haven't even asked opinion of the person who has it.

Common guys what is the big deal. When you marry an abusive husband, you should enjoy the pain. If your default browser is chrome and when the link opens in edge, all you have to do extra is login if the link needs login. If the link comes from a party who hasn't tested on edge then you just need to go on customer support for couple of hours and argue with a poor person on the phone telling them to fix the site. If you need to bookmark the link, just copy the link, go to chrome, open it and put it in bookmark. I mean you enjoy Windows. Can't you do these little things to show your joy?

MS has amazing record of supporting non-x86 hardware. Look at MIPS, PowerPC, Itanium, Dec-alpha and so on.

Yup. And that is why there are so many housing codes which prevents you from making strong doors (in the pretext of firefighters needing to break your doors in case of emergency). The same rule applies to windows as well. This makes it easier for thieves to commit robbery.

Now, they want to bring that analogy to encryption as well. But the danger here is that unlike windows and doors which can be broken by people who are in your vicinity, the encryption can be broken by anyone and they can rob you as well. If you loosen up encryption then there is no more internet as we know.